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The Study of the Book of Colossians Part 9 - Simply Christ Podcast · Simply Christ Podcast

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Welcome back to the Simply Christ podcast hosted by Leon
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Martin, along with Aaron Keaton, Melvin Martin, Andrew Schrock
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and Dan Blatz. Let's get right to it.
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So without further ado, I'll let Aaron open us up with a word of
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prayer. Our most holy and righteous
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Father, we are thankful for your word and we just pray that this
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would this talk that we have would wet somebody's hunger for,
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for your word that we might be able to encourage people and and
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grow their appetite and their desire for your word.
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And just pray that you'd reveal the the truth that's in it to
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us, guide us and help us to only say those things that are true
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and profitable. And just pray your father that
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we would also grow in our understanding of who you are and
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get to know you better. We want to be like Paul said he
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was and we want to know whom we believed and we just prayed.
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That is something that we would all learn and be able to
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encourage others in. Just ask you to watch over us as
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we do this. Make it be a blessing to those
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that hear it. And all these things we ask in
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Christ's precious name, Amen. All righty.
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We're going to be in Colossians chapter 2 and we're going to
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start in verse 13 tonight. That is where we're going to
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while you're turning there. I saw that, Dan.
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Was it this week that you found those mushrooms up there?
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I think it's, I think it's probably been the last three to
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four weeks that we've been finding them and most springs
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will find a few like a handful here and there.
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But this year, I don't know. I think maybe we, we kept the
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cows off the pasture a little longer trying to let the grass
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grow back. And it seems like right there,
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they're just popping up like almost every day the last week
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or so that kids come in with another big stainless steel bowl
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full of full of Morel mushrooms. Sure.
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So do you find them in a certain area kind of like a a wetter
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drier area or around certain? Trees or oh, always right after
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a rain. It seems like they pop up real
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quick. Used to be we'd find them up the
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road a little ways when we were walking right beside the trees.
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It seemed like there was just the one spot where they'd come
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up, but it's kind of sporadic. And then now it was in a certain
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section of the pasture under the trees.
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After a good rain they pop up real quick so.
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Sure. Interesting.
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Yeah, they haven't really good on.
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On omelets and stuff. Oh man, we, we, when we'd get
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them, we always slice them in half and soak them in salt
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water. Then we'd fry them with just
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just in a pan with butter, OK? Just eating my my 14 year old,
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he loves putting little things together and doing stuff.
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He cut them, slice them in half the other day and then he put
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like a jalapeno popper dip stuff inside there and then I'd bake
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them like that. And he was really excited to to
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present that to me. They were really good.
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How tall? How tall is the ones you find?
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Like how big? I would say the biggest that
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we've had. My son came in today holding one
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behind his back. I says, remember the one I
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showed you yesterday and then he came in with another one.
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It was I I would say at least my hand length.
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Oh wow, from. The bigger one.
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Don't they say that grow under a certain tree, like a certain
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kind of tree, like a Birch tree or something?
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I was going to be quick. Though around here they they say
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to watch, you know the ash trees, they got that emerald ash
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borer. So all the ash trees are dead or
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dying and we are we were always told to look around those that
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the the bark is especially on the ones where the bark is
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coming off because the the bark traps the spores.
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So when that falls off then they and and the few.
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I haven't haunted for a couple years, but we found one time we
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hit a honey hole just up the road from our house where we
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found grocery bags full under basically all under one tree and
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then two years later there was none there.
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You know I don't. Know my my wife had heard
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somewhere too that maybe there's a chance you know, blend them up
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and throw them in a certain spot.
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Maybe next year something will, you know, come up, but.
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Yeah, I did see online one time where you can buy like some sort
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of kit that has the spores in it.
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And then you take it out in your backyard and you, like you were
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saying, you put it in water and you spread it out on the ground
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and then supposedly they'll come up there.
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But does it work? I don't know that because you
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can't farm them like you can't grow them like a farm, like a
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regular mushroom. It's not possible.
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Yeah, yeah, it at least not with any accuracy.
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I see. I was Googling it and you can
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find farms that sell Morel mushrooms but so there must be a
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way to kind of make them grow or another.
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But anyway, I misspoke. That was not ash trees, those
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were Elm trees that. Have that I was going to say Elm
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and then I found here you find them around Sycamore trees a lot
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as well. Like if you you know apple tree,
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any kind of fruit tree was apartment to have them.
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You're a logger, Aaron, right? So do you find any walking
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around out? I mean, you're out of the woods
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all the time. Yeah.
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Oh, yeah, it yeah, it's totally year by year.
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Like there's years that, like you said, I'd find them by the
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grocery bag full. And then just like this year it
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was kind of dry, not a very pretty dry spring.
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And and I found very few this year.
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But I mean, there's been years that I've got picture after
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picture of the counter lined with them, but it just depends
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on the year. But.
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So around here, like the, we call them the little Grays.
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They're two inches, 2 1/2, maybe 3 tall.
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They'll come a little earlier once you see those and you'll
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watch for the white ones that'll come, you know, a couple days
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later. And I'm I'm the a Facebook group
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mushrooms in Iowa or something like that, Morels in Iowa.
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And then you can see it come up the tiers of counties.
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You know, people will post when they're fighting them and it
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just comes up through there. It takes, you know, about a
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three-week, four week period from the South border to the
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north as people are finding them.
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So it's kind of cool how that works.
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Yeah. Anyway, we'll get into the word
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talking about honey holes and mushrooms.
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I think we've got a killer next ahead of us that.
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Was a nice segue. Yeah, right.
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Well, I was I was reading ahead here and I just I find this
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really interesting and I'll let let you go ahead then with verse
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13 there. But we just got we just got talk
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done talking about being buried with him in baptism where his
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reality is ours. We basically get to experience
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what Christ did and we get the victory that he made for us
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since we're in him. Whatever happened to him was was
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a reality for us as well and we're asked to believe that not
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necessarily maybe experience it so much, but I think we do to a
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degree. But through the IT says you are
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risen with him through the faith of the operation of God who hath
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raised him from the dead. And verse 13 and you being dead
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in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh
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hath he quickened together with him having forgiven you all
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trespasses. And I'm going to read the next 4
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verses to because it's one sentence and I want to read the.
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You can go back and just come in on 13.
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So he says, having forgiven you all trespasses, rotting out the
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handwriting of ordinances, which was against us, which was
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contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his
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cross, and having spoiled principalities and powers, he
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made a show of them, openly triumphing over them in it.
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So there's a purpose here and and and we'll see their egos on
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to say then that let nomad therefore.
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So he's saying this stuff with a with a conclusion coming.
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And so anyway your your comments on verse 13 to get started then.
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You're muted. I got you muted yet still.
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Yeah, it was me. I was having a bit of technical
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difficulty hearing you guys, so I just muted it in case it was
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on my end. I wasn't sure.
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So yeah, it's this is obviously still one flow, one argument.
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He's he's talking about what actually happened to us at the
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cross. And I think a lot of
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Christianity has missed this. It's kind of like a Christianity
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is basically evangelism is a presenting a ticket to heaven.
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One day you will be able to go to heaven if you die.
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And that's great news. You know that Christ died for
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your sins. You're sick.
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Your sins are forgiven when you die, you'll go to heaven.
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But there's something that happened to us and something
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that Christ did for us that gives us new life and new
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purpose and new power in the here and now.
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So he said we were buried with him in baptism.
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And we pointed out last week that it's a spirit baptism into
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the body of Christ. And now through the faith of the
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operation of God, we are raised from the dead with Christ.
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And he then he goes back to saying and you being dead in
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your trespasses or being dead in your sins and uncircumcisional
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of your flesh, He's presenting us the reality of what our life
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was like when we were in the flesh.
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That's how Romans Chapter 7 puts it.
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When ye were in the flesh, the motions of sin which were in the
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flesh ruled us, right? And so he says wet and you being
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dead in your sins, in the uncircumcision of your flesh.
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We we talked about circumcision last week a little bit, how we
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don't want to have progressive circumcision happening, just
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like progressive sanctification should not be a thing unless you
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want to deal with progressive circumcision and it happens all
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at once. And what happens in circumcision
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is a very external thing. You pulled up the external part
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of the member, you chop the thing off and you discard it so
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that the inner member is exposed.
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As gruesome and as grotesque maybe as that sounds, that is
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the image that he's giving us here of our salvation.
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This outer man is akin to the foreskin of the male member,
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something that should be ripped away, chopped off, and
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discarded. But when we were in the flesh,
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when we were yet in our sins, we were dead in our sins and the
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uncircumcision of our flesh. He's not talking about whether
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or not your male member was circumcised.
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He was saying that while you were living in your sins, you
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are an uncircumcised person and God wants circumcised people.
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And he again, he's not referring to the physical member here.
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He's talking about your body. He's repeated this again and
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again and again. The body of the sins of the
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flesh, the faith of the operation of God has cut us away
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from the body. The body has been counted null
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and void. We have been made free from the
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body of sin. And you know, that's, that's
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kind of the language that he's using here.
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So we have been quickened together with him.
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So the old man, the body of flesh, the outer man, the skin
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of the man was crucified with Christ.
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And then we were raised together with Christ, so that we can say
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with Paul in Galatians 220 I am crucified with Christ.
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Nevertheless I live yet not I, but Christ live within me the
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life which I now live in the flesh.
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I live by faith, the Son of God who loved me and gave himself
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for me. So there's a reality that God is
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presenting to us that our physical reality argues against.
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Our sight, our smell, our hearing, our tasting, our
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touching tells us this is our reality.
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God says this is your reality. And they argue against each
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other. And we live not by faith.
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We live rather or we live not by sight, rather we live by faith.
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This is what the challenge of living the Christian life is
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supposed to be. Here's what you feel is your
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reality. Here's what God says is your
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reality. You feel like you're alive to
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sin and uncircumcised still, perhaps the Bible says if you've
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placed your faith in Jesus, you were dead in your sins, you were
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uncircumcised, but he's quickened you together.
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You were baptized with him, you were put to death and you're
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raised to new life. And obviously I could go on and
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on. I'd love to read from Romans 8,
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seven through 10 and and Ephesians 2, five and six, but
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I'll give you guys a chance to time in there.
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There's there's so much that can be said on this topic.
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Right. So much to be said and I
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appreciate your input. That's good, Aaron.
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I've really got two things to say.
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I guess 1 is that this is going to be, I think there's going to
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be really important to, as you said, the following argument in
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verse 16, because, and I don't want to jump too far ahead, but
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it's really important to remember this because some I
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actually had a guy tell me one time like he was, he was saying
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that verse 16 was saying, yeah, you shouldn't judge somebody
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else for doing for not eating certain meats or, you know, like
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trying to keep the law. He was, he was turning it around
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the exactly the opposite of what it says and saying you shouldn't
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judge a person for doing these things.
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But the reason that's so false is because I think this is one
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of the verses, and if you look it up, the people at Colossi
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were mostly Gentile. This is not a bunch of people
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that were already doing these things, right?
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They're being encouraged to do these things, but they're not
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already doing these things. So when he says you being dead
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in your sins and the uncircumcision in your flesh,
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that is an argument for this conclusion.
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Like these are not Jewish people.
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These are Gentile people that may be being pressured to do
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these Jewish things, but they're not already doing that.
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They were dead in their sins. They were uncircumcised,
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literally and in what they did. So that's one thing.
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The second thing is, as I was talking to a guy today and he
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was kind of, he wasn't really arguing it, but he was making
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the point that he said he didn't really understand the Bible.
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And he said, you, there's things you can't understand in the
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Bible until you're saved. And I said, you're right.
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Like that's true. God does through the Spirit give
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us some revelation and the Spirit reveals things to us.
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There's things that are spiritually discerned.
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But I said there is this crossover in which these people
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were they went from dead in their sins to believing the
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gospel almost basically instantaneously.
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So it's not why that's what I told him you, it's not like you
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can put this cart before the horse.
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You can't get the Spirit so that you can understand enough to be
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saved. Is that make sense?
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In other words, he's saying these people were going along
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dead in their sins. They hear the gospel and it is
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revealed to them and they go and they have a instantaneous
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transition from being dead in their sins to quickened and made
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alive, right. I mean, it is just a it, they
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just go from one to the other. So there is something I said
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that because what the guy said. There is.
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Something there is truth in the fact that the Spirit does reveal
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things and there's things that are only spiritually discerned.
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But everybody that ever was saved went from dead and sins to
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believe in the gospel and being saved, right, You know, and the
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the the down payment for that belief was the Spirit, right?
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I mean, that's what he says. It's the earnest of our, you
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know, like that. That is the down payments for
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that. So there is A to me that's
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great. That's very encouraging because
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the guy, I think, I guess maybe I should be explaining it back
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to her. I think the guy was trying to
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catch himself up with I can't understand the Bible, so
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therefore I can't be saved. I don't you only understand the
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Bible by having the spirit. And it was almost like this hang
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up like he couldn't he felt like he needed the one before the
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other. And I said no, it's I mean,
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either it has to be some overlap there in which the person that
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is just dead in their sins believes something that is a
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simple story about a man and salvation comes from that.
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And I think that that's what you see being dead in your sins and
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uncertainty. Flesh hath he quickened together
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with him. So it was just this thing that
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happened, you know, like they just believe something but.
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I don't know if that made any sense.
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No, 100%. And and if you're not familiar
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with the word quickened, that's an old word that we don't use
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nowadays, but it simply means to be made alive.
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So you can read that the uncircumcised of your flesh, and
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he hath made alive together with him.
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You know that that's basically So what was dead is now alive,
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right? Yeah.
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No. Yeah, I think in verse 12 he
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kind of lays it out what that looks like.
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It doesn't say that you have to understand the Bible to be
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quickened together with him. It says in verse 12 it says
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through I'll just read the whole thing buried with him in baptism
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buried with Christ in baptism. Where so are you also arisen
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with him through the faith of the operation of God who has
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raised him from the dead. So it's it's faith.
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It's simply faith believing right.
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It's not having to fully understand everything, because
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if I would have had to understand everything about the
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Bible in order to get saved or be baptized into Christ, and it
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would have took five more years until I would have got saved,
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you know? And that's just not how God
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operates. And you just Simply put your
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faith in Christ and the finished work of the cross, and then you
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are no more dead in your sins, right?
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That's what he's saying. And you being dead in your sins
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and the uncircumcision of your flesh hath He quickened, made
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alive. And then Ephesians 2, like you
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were saying that I'm going to read that because that really
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kind of lays this out pretty simply.
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In 2 verses in Ephesians 2, five and six, he says even when we
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were dead in sins hath quick. And there's the same word, quick
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and made alive us together with Christ by grace.
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Are you saved not by of understanding the scriptures.
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It says by grace are you saved and hath raised us up together
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and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
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So there is a actual how would you say it?
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What would be the right word? Transformation is what comes to
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my mind, but I think it it is that but there is a actual
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physical status. You would say that changes right
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here and now. Like right now we are seated
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together with Christ in heavenly places.
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That's not in the new heaven and new earth that is now.
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And so I that is just like encouraging and a blessing to me
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to understand. And I didn't understand that for
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many years. And I don't know if I still
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fully understand the whole dynamics of that right, or what
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that actually looks like. But the Bible says that we are
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seated with Him in heavenly places right now.
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Yeah, Yeah, that's right. And Cameron posted there and I
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want to touch on that real quick because I think that's a really
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relevant kind of question and you might have answered it
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yourself, Cameron and the rest of the.
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Message there. But he said good evening
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brothers. It is it right to refer to this
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stuff as a peek into the spiritual metamorphosis of the
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believer? So to speak.
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And I think that's right. You know, you, you mentioned
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Mel, when you know, the transformation that we're
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talking about being dead and then made alive, you know, a
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metamorphosis, you know, isn't maybe quite the right word
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because now it mean that means a process of this is also maybe a
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process. But this is a really short 1,
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you were dead or you're alive that that's how that that
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metamorphosis is. So maybe that's a little bit
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different. And also it needs to be changed
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literally from, you know, a young, you know, juvenile to a
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fully adult, fully, fully, you know, developed, I guess,
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whereas this he calls it a new creation.
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So maybe that's maybe that's even a better word.
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I mean, I, I think the metamorphosis, I've, I've heard
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that word used a lot. But yeah, I, I think that's,
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that's pretty good. Any thoughts on on that, that
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comment there? Any of you guys?
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I don't think there's a only thing I would say as far as the
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metamorphosis word is that's more of, I hate to say it like
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this, but it's almost like that's a polishing up.
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But in in reference to these verses, it's a total death of
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the old creature and a new creature coming out of it.
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You know what I mean? So that that would be my only
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fault to using that word. Is it?
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It's kind of like maybe our old way of thinking of God just
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needs to get in US and Polish us up where he said no, no, I
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actually needed to put you to death and have a new creature
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come forth. That'd be my only thought on it.
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I was I was putting off reading this earlier because I felt like
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I was going too long, but Romans chapter 8 verse 7 says for the
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because the carnal mind is enmity against God.
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No, for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can
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be. So then they that are in the
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flesh, those that are still uncircumcised, those that are
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still in their body cannot please God.
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But he says to us Christians, but ye are not in the flesh, but
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in the spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.
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Now if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he's none of
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his but and if Christ is in you, the body flesh is dead because
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of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness.
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So yeah, you could, you could think of it as a metamorphosis.
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I I just recently taught through 1st Corinthians 15 and he talks
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about this corruptible putting on incorruption, this mortal
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putting on immortality. So it's like those that are
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alive and remain at the coming of Christ, they will be changed
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in the moment and twinkling of an eye.
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They'll will be transformed from natural to supernatural, from
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mortal to immortal. And so it will be like a
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metamorphosis for sure. But here he's saying currently
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now as believers who still look and feel like we're in the
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flesh, he says you are not in the flesh.
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You are free from this body. You are seated with Christ
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currently. And by believing that, by
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reckoning that to be true, we experience the reality.
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Of it that is good. And because I always thought
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that the best verse for kind of connecting those things together
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is there Romans 4, Romans 417, the last half verse when he says
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who quickeneth the dead and calleth those things which be
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not as though they were right. I mean, like that is what that
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verse is saying he's called he's we didn't turn, we didn't see
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the change physically of of changing, but God calls those
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things which be not as though they were like in his reckoning.
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That is true whether you feel it or not.
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It is true and. I mean, I, I know that the once
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you know, there's a difference between a young believer and A
24:06
and A and an old believer, one that's experienced.
24:08
I mean, you do grow in Christ. There's that's not what we're
24:11
saying, but the, the transforming part part is
24:15
instant and sudden. When I came, when I got saved,
24:17
part of my testimony actually is that without even my knowledge
24:22
necessarily without any effort on my part, I would say I went
24:26
from loving sin and, and these things to hating it.
24:32
There was there was there was no period of time when I slowly
24:36
kind of got to hate or whatever it just God gave me a a new
24:41
heart. You know, it was one of flesh
24:43
and not one of stone like I had. And so I mean, yeah, that that
24:46
that's a good discussion. I, I thank you Cameron for that
24:48
question. I I think that that's that's
24:52
something that the modern church really wants to kind of fudge
24:56
this and, you know, get you under the impression, you know,
24:59
progressive sanctification where you continue, you know,
25:02
eventually, eventually, if you do these, you eventually, you
25:05
know, got us find you acceptable.
25:07
That's not the way it is. You're.
25:10
Sanctified or you're not? But it, it, it looks to me like,
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like what I read there in Ephesians 26 where he says, and
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he has raised us up together, meaning us and Christ and God.
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And then he says made us sit together.
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He uses the same word again in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
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To me, that's like a relational term.
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Like it's like, like we're there together with Jesus and with
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God. We might not be there like
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physically sitting there, but we are actually because we are in
25:45
Christ and Christ is in US and the Spirit is in US.
25:48
So it's, I don't know it, yeah, we could go a long time on this,
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but it it, it's just so beautiful when you understand
25:56
that it. So then out of that you operate,
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you know, like you're the transformation in your physical
26:04
life here right now. Kind of comes from that
26:07
relationship with God and with Jesus.
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Yes, Sir. Well, and God, it's not like,
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like we, we've talked about this before, but it's not, we
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understand that there are things that that we realize as we go
26:27
along, we grow in our understanding, we are renewed by
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knowledge and all those things. But that's not what he's talking
26:34
about here. When he's talking about God's
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reckoning, it's not like God takes time to reckon it as the
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believer believes it. God is not in a process of
26:45
reckoning. He just reckons it to be true,
26:47
right? There's no delay in that.
26:50
He just sees the person believes him and it's and it's just
26:52
instantaneous. So we we often pull, we often
26:59
pull something else into these verses when that's not always
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talking about that's. Right.
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That's good. Yeah.
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That's that's exciting stuff, actually.
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That. Yeah.
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And he made something alive that was dead.
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I don't know of any other being that was ever able to do that.
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We can make something dead that was alive, but not the other way
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around, 14 says. Blotting out the handwriting of
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ordinances, which was against us, which was contrary to us,
27:31
and took it out of the way, mailing it to the cross.
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Just makes me think of that verse where he said that if
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there is a law that could have been given that would have
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brought life, he'd have done it. It wasn't.
27:43
And so he just took that out of the way and said this is the new
27:46
way and the two don't mix. It's like oil and water.
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This is the new way that it is totally separate from that old
27:54
way. He took that of completely away
27:56
nailed it to his cross. He says look it out of the way.
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So when it it titled the cross with him.
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Yeah, I think a lot of people don't make this connection in
28:07
the average Christian Church that it was the law of
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commandments and ordinances that was keeping us from coming to
28:15
God. God wanted, God wanted a
28:18
relationship with humanity, but he also wanted his righteous
28:22
standards upheld. So he instituted this law, but
28:25
the law is now what was keeping him from being able to connect
28:28
to his people because the people were not living up to his
28:31
standard. And so in Ephesians chapter 2,
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verse 15, he says having abolished in his flesh again
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Christ's body in his flesh, having abolished in his flesh
28:42
the enmity. What is the enmity?
28:45
What is the problem? What is keeping us out of God's
28:48
Kingdom? The even the law of commandments
28:53
contained in ordinances for to making himself of twain one new
28:58
man, so making peace, and that he might reconcile both unto God
29:03
in one body, by the cross having slain the enmity thereby.
29:08
So the body is under the law of God.
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It is subject to the law of God, but the mind couldn't keep the
29:16
law of God. And so then the body is now
29:18
condemned under that law and the person cannot get to God.
29:22
So Christ took the body that was being controlled and being
29:27
condemned by the law, and he put the body to death so that we are
29:31
now free from our body, free the member, the male member is
29:35
exposed in a circumcision. And so the male part of us or
29:39
the external part of us, the fleshly part of us, was keeping
29:42
us from the from God because the commandments were condemning us.
29:47
So anybody who tries to get to God by keeping commandments,
29:51
it's like they're trying to wrap the foreskin back on, like
29:54
they're trying to become fleshly again so as to attain status
29:58
before God. But what is needed, what is
30:01
required, and the only way for us to get to God is for that
30:05
circumcision to take place, for the old man to be put off.
30:08
And so he said he's blot out the handwriting of ordinances
30:11
against us. How?
30:12
Because he nailed our bodies to the cross, the thing that was
30:16
bound under the law of God. And Romans Chapter 7 talks about
30:20
this, how the woman is bound to the law as long as her husband
30:24
lives, but if the husband be dead, he is free.
30:26
She is free from the law of her husband.
30:28
And so our body was keeping us subject to the law of God.
30:33
But now the body has been destroyed, The body has been put
30:36
away so that the commandments no longer condemn and control the
30:42
man, right? The man is now out from
30:44
underneath that condemnation. The commandments of ordinances,
30:47
the handwriting against us, all the things that God could have
30:50
said based on the law. Thou shalt not, thou shalt not.
30:53
Thou shalt. You failed in all these ways.
30:56
Now the man needs to die. The Bible says that in Christ,
30:59
our old man, the body of flesh was nailed to the cross along
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with Christ, and his work on our behalf made us free from the
31:07
commandments and the ordinances and the law that was against us.
31:10
He nailed it to the cross, and he freed us from the
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consequences and the constant reminder of our failure, Right?
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We're we are now free from all of that.
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Man, that's good stuff. Error.
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Yeah, I was just kind of thinking as Dan was talking
31:30
there, it's like, would you would you say, is it fair to say
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that he also, well, I'm kind of wanting to tie the next verse in
31:45
with it. But the the things in First
31:49
Corinthians 15 and verse 56, it says the sting of death is sin
31:54
and the strength of sin is the law.
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So the the thing that the thing that the devil, and this is kind
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of what I was going to make the point in the next verse about,
32:05
but I'll try to tie these two things together.
32:08
The devil is said to be in Revelations, the accuser of the
32:11
brethren. So the devil is saying, look
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what they did, look what they did, look what they did.
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And he says the handwriting is blotted out.
32:21
So what I was going to say is, is it fair to say that the you
32:27
know how we would say that Christ we are hid with Christ in
32:30
God, the law is not disappeared in a sense, it's just been
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covered over by his keeping. Yep.
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Nope. Nope.
32:45
You connected, are you? He can't hear me.
32:48
He connected for his Bluetooth. About now.
32:54
That's the. Yep.
32:56
Did you hear any of it? Yes, we did.
32:58
Yep. Yep.
32:59
You were just. Yeah, go ahead.
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Well, I was just going to say the the the thing that the thing
33:09
that condemned humanity would have been the law like the
33:12
strength of the law is or strength of sin is the law.
33:15
So the thing that is condemning humanity is the rules like the
33:20
God says this is what I require. So Christ, you might say he
33:25
covered that, he blotted that out when he accomplished all
33:29
those things. Would you agree with that?
33:31
In other words, he actually full, that's what he said, He
33:33
fulfilled all the law. So some of those things
33:36
represented what he was going to do.
33:38
But in that true sense, he actually did fulfill all the
33:42
requirements of the law and, and it is covered and blotted over.
33:48
It is covered over by him. So God, it's like this is the
33:53
point that I was going to make kind of the next verse is the
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devil is accusing and God's saying, I hear you, but I don't
34:01
see any of that. It's covered over like Christ
34:04
has covered that over. So I don't know, maybe I'm maybe
34:08
I'm grasping at straws here, but but I just kind of based on the
34:12
next verse and I don't want to jump ahead, but based on the
34:15
next verse, he's, he spoiled these principalities and powers.
34:20
Like again, I don't know that's what it's saying.
34:23
But I thought about it today when I was looking at it is the
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devil is called the accuser of the brethren.
34:29
The strength of the law of strength of sin is the law.
34:33
So the devil is trying to take those things and accuse.
34:37
Look what they did. Look what they did, but it's
34:39
actually covered over. It's it's covered over by
34:43
Christ. I mean, that's what imputed
34:44
righteousness is He is counting us, calling us something that
34:48
we're not. In other words, the reality is I
34:51
still say and think and do some things that are not right, but
34:54
God does not see that for what Christ did.
34:57
The devil's trying to accuse me, but it is God saying, sorry,
35:03
it's covered. It's blotted out by my Son and
35:06
his perfect life. I don't know.
35:08
I just, I guess I'm more seeing what you think about that than
35:12
anything, but. Yeah, absolutely.
35:14
Well, you know, and, and he, Jesus said that he fulfilled the
35:19
demands of the law, you know. So is it covered or is that the
35:23
right word? Yeah.
35:23
Good question, Melvin. Well, I think, I think
35:27
Revelations as you were talking, I thought of Revelations 20.
35:31
It kind of gives us that picture on the Day of Judgment.
35:36
It says in verse 20, verse 1011 and 12 it says, and it starts
35:41
out with this in verse 10, it says, and the devil that
35:44
deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where
35:49
the beast and the false prophet are, and she'll be tormented day
35:52
and night forever and ever. So all these that are just
35:55
getting ready to be judged by God is what it says was deceived
36:01
by the devil and the and the devil was cast into the lake of
36:04
fire. And then it says in verse 11, I
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saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose
36:10
face the earth and heaven fled away, and there was found no
36:13
place for them. And I saw the dead, small and
36:17
great, stand before God. And the books were opened, and
36:21
another book was opened, which is the book of life.
36:24
And the dead were judged out of those things which were written
36:27
in the books according to their works.
36:31
And so we have that picture where there on the day of
36:35
Judgment there is these books are open where if your name is
36:39
not written in the book of life, it says the book of life is open
36:43
as well. But if your name is not written
36:45
in the book of life, because it says in the last verse there
36:48
verse 15. And whosoever was not found
36:51
written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
36:53
So if your if your name was not written in the book of life,
36:57
then the other books were opened and you were judged out of those
37:02
books by your works. And that's what I think of when
37:06
it says here that Jesus is blotted out the handwriting of
37:11
the ordinances that was against us.
37:13
So in those books is what the ordinance was I fantasy that
37:18
were written against us, right, and Jesus allotted them out.
37:22
He covered them with his blood, right, and and that's just so
37:28
beautiful. And then I would one of another
37:31
thing I wanted to point out is that he's kind of explaining
37:34
here also. I see what it looks like to be
37:38
quickened together with Christ. He says that you're forgiven
37:43
from all your trespasses when you're quick it together with
37:46
with him with Christ. And then your your ordinances
37:50
that were written against you are blotted out and and it and
37:54
those are were contrary to us and and he took it out of the
37:59
way. He actually didn't just cover it
38:01
there. I mean, yes, I do believe what
38:03
you were saying, Aaron, he did covered, but it says he actually
38:06
took it out of the way like it's not there anymore and he nailed
38:10
it to his cross that that's just and that's so final, so to
38:16
speak. That's that gives me the picture
38:18
of, you know, where is your name written in the book of life or
38:22
does it move over to to the other book where you're going to
38:25
be judged from your works? No, if you have put your trust
38:29
in Christ, then your name is in the book of life and it is not
38:32
going to be those ordinances and handwritten ordinances that were
38:36
against you are not going to be there anymore.
38:40
Yeah, that's right. In Romans 4 in regards to what
38:44
you're saying there, Melvin, he has he says blessed is the man
38:49
to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
38:53
That is a blessed man. There's you can't get any more
38:58
blessed than not to have your sins imputed against you.
39:02
I'm telling you what that is good news.
39:04
So 100% that's that's right. Oh yeah, good stuff.
39:11
And verse 15 and having spoiled principalities and powers, he
39:17
made a show of them openly triumphing over them in it.
39:21
And I know I think was the last week or the week before I talked
39:26
about that word spoiled a little bit.
39:30
So when you spoil says not like bad fruit that that got rotten.
39:33
That's not what this is meaning this when something is spoiled,
39:38
it means like a city that's been been, you know, there's an army
39:43
came through it and they took all the valuables out of it.
39:45
They they took all the good stuff, the gold, the money, the
39:48
women, the beast, the animals. They took all the goods out of
39:51
that. That city's been spoiled.
39:53
It has been stripped of any valuables.
39:55
It's been stripped of any good. And if you think of that in this
40:00
so he may and having spoiled the principalities and powers, in
40:04
other words, he rendered them powerless.
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I love it, Dan. Any, anything.
40:12
Yeah, that word spoiled. I, I heard that word most
40:15
frequently when we saw a child get everything that he wanted.
40:20
And, and most kids when they hear of another boy or a girl
40:24
that's spoiled, the kids think, man, I wish I was spoiled.
40:28
Because the kid, the kid that's spoiled is the one getting the
40:31
latest video game, the one that has the four Wheeler, the one
40:34
that has all the stuff, the one that gets to go to Disneyland.
40:36
It's like man, that kid is so spoiled.
40:38
But the problem is, is that people from the outside can see
40:42
the dad is just buying the kids stuff and he's spoiling his
40:46
character. He's ruining the the boy with.
40:49
The boy never has to work for anything.
40:50
The boy never has to save up for anything.
40:52
The boy never has to obey. He never like, he just gets
40:55
whatever he wants and it looks like fun, but he's actually
40:59
being spoiled. And so the word is correct, but
41:02
it's not a positive word. It's a very, it's a very
41:04
negative word. And like you said, you you
41:06
defeat the enemy and you take all their goods.
41:08
That's what spoiling is. And so when it says here that he
41:11
triumphed over them in it, you almost can't help but get this,
41:15
this celebration, victory dance kind of image in your mind.
41:19
Like some of these football players that hit the touchdown,
41:21
they slam that ball on the ground.
41:23
They do a little dance like they they defeated their enemies,
41:26
like they, they conquered them. The word triumphing in the old
41:31
Webster's Dictionary says celebrating victory with pomp,
41:36
vanquishing, rejoicing for victory, insulting on an
41:41
advantage. Imagine that like I got the
41:44
advantage of you. Take that like you didn't have
41:48
anything on me you thought you had.
41:49
The victory is like a master chess player allowing his
41:53
opponent to feel like I think I might have this guy.
41:56
It's like check, I've I've almost got you cornered.
42:00
And then the master turns around and says, I did that just to
42:03
make a show of it. I did it just to ashame you.
42:07
I I only wanted to do it this way so that when I burst forth
42:10
from the grave, you would all shake your heads and
42:13
bewilderment and wonder how did this happen?
42:16
Had the Princess of this world known they would not have
42:18
crucified the Lord of glory, but God had one up his sleeve, so to
42:22
speak. He, he was waiting for this
42:24
opportunity. And it says that Christ was, was
42:28
predestined to be crucified. And they did all the things that
42:32
God predestined for them to do. Now, I don't think God was
42:35
turning screws and forcing them to do anything but he, they
42:38
played right into his trap. And then he burst forth from the
42:42
grave and made a show of them, openly triumphing over them in
42:46
his great victory. And we're still celebrating that
42:49
great victory today. Yeah.
42:50
That's right. And very literally.
42:52
And and, you know, he he literally made a show of it too,
42:57
walking in the streets after he was, you know, rose from the
43:01
dead. Yeah.
43:02
I mean very literally so, Aaron. Yeah.
43:05
And and I guess like I said, I don't know if I was making that
43:08
point or not, but that that was what I was kind of getting at is
43:12
all I do. I kind of saw that.
43:14
I never saw it before till I kind of looked at before like we
43:17
got on here was that's what I was saying like the strength of
43:22
sin is the law like the people that were fighting against you
43:26
know, Ephesians 612 says we wrestle not against flesh and
43:29
blood against principalities and powers rules darkness, this
43:32
world. So the thing the the accusers of
43:39
us, the people that thought they had us or thought they had
43:42
Christ would have thought they had us by the law.
43:46
And then Christ fulfills that completely and all her strength
43:52
is gone, right? Like there's nothing when he
43:54
accomplishes it. And then, as you said, dies
43:57
there and raises again and does that the, the power's gone,
44:02
right? You're, you're, I mean, that's
44:03
the Romans 6-7 and eight. I mean, you're dead to sin like
44:06
it. It has no power over you
44:08
anymore. He has, he has killed off, he's
44:12
spoiled. He's as you all said, he's
44:14
robbed the strength, the goods that they had, which was the
44:18
law. That's what they would have used
44:20
against us. You know, that's what they would
44:21
accused us with. So I don't know, maybe not the
44:24
best point, but I just thought it was interesting.
44:27
No, that's that's 100%. I think we got a burlap sack
44:31
full of mushers by now. This.
44:38
But I think, I think that I was just thinking as you were
44:42
talking that, you know, even the disciples that were close to
44:47
Jesus before he died on the cross had a hard time believing
44:52
that he arose again, that he was actually not dead anymore
44:58
because obviously that never happened before, right?
45:00
So, but that being said is that he made a show of them openly.
45:07
Like in other words, I had to also think of when he was in the
45:11
when they put his dead body in the tomb, they put, you know,
45:14
the the Roman soldiers, they put the seal on the tomb, which was
45:19
like 14. I don't remember the number.
45:21
It's a lot of soldiers that they put guard over to make sure that
45:26
nobody steals his body, you know, and, and when Jesus did
45:30
raise the dead, those soldiers just fell over like they were
45:33
nothing like. So in other words, what he's
45:35
just making a point here that I see is that God's the, the God's
45:41
power that raised Jesus from the dead.
45:45
There's no principality or power.
45:47
There's no earthly or man made power that can be able to stand
45:54
against that. And that's what makes this in
45:59
Christ rising from the dead so powerful.
46:04
And it's so how would you say it?
46:07
It's so much more relevant to than any other religion or
46:12
trying to put your faith in anything else, right?
46:15
Because it's it happened. It actually happened, right?
46:19
And and he has power over any man and I don't know is he's
46:25
just making that point pretty clear.
46:28
Seems like what that looks like and it triumphing over them in
46:32
it. So he it's just so good.
46:35
It when we understand this, it makes us 3 to be able to know
46:41
where we stand with God and in Christ.
46:47
Yeah. And how much how much better is
46:48
it, you know, when we when we talk about, you know, you know,
46:53
Andrew talks a lot about, you know, delivers ministries and
46:55
how they, you know, we dig around in the past to try to
46:58
find our security or dig around in the past and try to eliminate
47:03
all these things that are against us so we can live a free
47:05
life or whatever. That's not what I see here.
47:08
This is this is past tense. Having spoiled the
47:11
principalities and powers, they are rendered powerless in the
47:15
sight of God, you know, in the in the power of Jesus Christ and
47:18
us being in him. So that that that is a really,
47:23
really strong position that we have as a believer.
47:28
We really do there. We don't we, we don't there's no
47:31
need for us to be afraid. There's there's nothing that is
47:35
greater than the God that has in his hands our soul.
47:42
You know, that just isn't so all right.
47:46
And so I'm going to read 16 and 17 together.
47:49
This is kind of the conclusion maybe or the start of his
47:52
conclusion of the matter, that in a sense here he says, so let
47:56
no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect
48:01
of an holy day or of the new moon or of the Sabbath days,
48:06
which are a shadow of things to come.
48:09
But the body is of Christ. So like, don't judge.
48:18
Don't let any man therefore judge you in what you are eating
48:23
or drinking. I don't know.
48:24
Take it away. Dan, what are you?
48:26
What are you? I like that this verse begins
48:29
with the therefore, you know, you have to know what he's
48:32
concluding, what he's talking about.
48:34
These people were being encouraged and being spoiled and
48:38
being defrauded. Let no man defraud you or spoil
48:42
you or trick you or beguile you of your reward which you have in
48:45
Christ. And then he gives us this big
48:47
long explanation of how we have been made 100% free from sin and
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we are presented to God as holy and unblameable and unreprovable
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in his sight. We are complete.
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We are, we are sure we have absolute security in Christ and
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the whole Old Testament system has been done away with.
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The body has been destroyed. There's there's nothing that
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sticks to us any longer. Therefore don't let anybody
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judge you for what you might eat, or what you might wear, or
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what you might drink, or what day you might hold holy, or
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which day you don't take holy, whether you keep a Sabbath day
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or a moon day, or whatever it might be.
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Those all were just shadows of things that were to come.
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But the true identity, the real thing took place in Christ and
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we have been made complete in Christ.
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Therefore all of the Leviticus stuff that is explained in
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Leviticus was no longer is no longer applicable to us.
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We, there's no, we shouldn't let anybody look down on us for
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eating an unclean animal or for working on a certain day or not
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working on a certain day, for keeping certain Sabbath days or
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not keeping certain Sabbath days.
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But I think in particular, like Melvin or Aaron said earlier,
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these people were not Sabbath keepers to begin with.
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They were being encouraged by Sabbath keepers that you have to
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go back to the law. But now Paul is saying, hey,
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look, the law didn't make us holy.
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It actually kept us from God. Christ kept the law and he
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crucified him. He was crucified.
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You were crucified with him so that you could be free from any
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kind of restraint of externality, external laws.
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And so all of these things, the foods, the holy days, the new
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moons, the Sabbath days, they were all just a shadow of
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Christ, but the body was of Christ.
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They all hinted towards what Christ would do.
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And now we have the complete picture.
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We don't need to go back to the old shadows.
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There's nothing you can do or not or not do that will somehow
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change your status before God. There's nothing you can put in
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your mouth or put on your body. There's no day you can keep or
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not keep that is going to bring you somehow a step closer to
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God. Our standing before God is
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through the body of Christ and that is complete.
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It completely frees us up to enjoy all things we can now
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enjoy not sin we that's clear, but these ordinances, these
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laws, these commandments that bind a man to certain days,
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certain feasts, certain touch, not taste, not handle, not as
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he's going to say that all we've been freed from through the body
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of Christ. And so don't let anybody judge
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you. Don't let anybody look down upon
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you or think you're less spiritual because you're not
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keeping certain days. You Colossians, you don't need
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to start doing Jewish stuff. You can continue to live in your
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culture rejoicing in the truth that you kind of skipped that
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whole phase of the law. It brought those people to
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Christ and you didn't have to go under the law.
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You Christ was put under the law for you, and you're free from
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the restraints of the law. That's good preaching right
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there. You betcha, Aaron.
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Good news. Yeah, that's good stuff.
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I've always, so anytime I see verses like this, I always think
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about first Corinth or Acts 15 because that is the point of
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that little council They had Acts 15 verse one says and
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certain men which came down from Judea taught the brethren and
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said, except you be circumcised after the manner of Moses, you
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cannot be saved. And any they talk about it and
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they say this in verse 10, Acts 15, verse 10.
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He says now therefore, why tempt ye God to put a yoke like in
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other words, if you teach this, if you teach that you need to be
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circumcised and keep the law, why tempt ye God to put a yoke
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upon the neck of the disciples? And this is Gentile disciples,
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because, you know, that was the point of the, the little
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question, what are we going to tell the Gentiles they have to
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do? Why tempt you, God, to put a
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yoke upon the neck of the disciples which neither our
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fathers nor we were able to bear, you know, So I mean,
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that's exactly what he's saying here.
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Don't let somebody say you're not really a Christian because
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you're not keeping this day, as Dan said, or not eating this
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thing or are eating this thing. He says.
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Don't let me judge you on that. I just told you that you were
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dead in sins. You were walking along in the
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state you were in. You believe the Gospel and
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Christ made you alive. Don't let anybody change your
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mind about that. It's that simple.
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That's Rich Melvin. Yeah, I that's is so good.
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I I like basically what he, what I see here, how he's wrapping
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this up or the conclusion he put in verse 17 is, is kind of to me
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kind of gets the point of what he's saying here.
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He says in the very last part of verse 2, verse 17, he says, but
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the body is of Christ and that's the whole thing that he's been
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trying to point out all the way through Colossians here is is
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Christ and who we are in Christ and that that is that is where
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we need to be. And that is where they probably
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were, but they were being deceived or not deceived, but
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they were trying to be they were encouraging them the Jews or
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someone was encouraging the Colossians church there to start
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to keep the holy days or whatever.
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But he says, yeah, let no man therefore judge you like because
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the body is of Christ and whether you're Jew or Gentile or
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whatever you are in Christ, you are now one and and you don't
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need to be doing all these things right.
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And so that is freeing. That is where I can't think of
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the verse where he says about the the liberty that we have in
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Christ. Now he he does say there be
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careful that we don't use that liberty in the wrong way.
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But this is the liberty that he's talking about.
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We have liberty in Christ right. Then we shouldn't have to be
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looking at each other and being able to judge each other in
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saying, well, you're not doing this or I'm not doing that, or
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you need to be doing this or you need to be doing that.
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Then our focus gets off of Christ and then our and the
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devil loves that. The devil likes to do that all
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the time, it seems. You think it is, though, then
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that very serious Christians all through the ages and even still
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today, especially like the reformer type of Christians,
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they're super big on making Sunday the Sabbath day.
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And, and I'll even like we've heard it before during time of
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confession or something out at a church meeting where they're
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like, you know, we really ought to be keeping the Sabbath.
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Like how, how can you stand up and preach that?
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From where would you get something like that?
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Besides, maybe, you know, Jesus talked about the Sabbath in a
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positive way. He does say that Sabbath was for
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man, not man for the Sabbath. But other than that, you know,
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he doesn't say dismissed the the Sabbath.
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But you read this and it's like, don't let anybody judge.
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Why was it that Christians for so long we're so adamant still
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on somehow making the Sunday the Sabbath to begin with and then
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trying to keep it holy by going to church and not going out for
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food or something. But they're still doing
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everything like it. They're not keeping the Sabbath.
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What? Where did that come from?
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Yeah, yeah. And the scripture here actually,
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you know, it is, it's almost inviting us because it comes, he
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says. And he made a shoe of them
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openly triumphing over them in it.
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Therefore, like he's almost asking us to triumph openly,
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like he's encouraging us to stand in this same kind of like,
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no, this is the truth. This is where I stand, not in
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this other thing like like, let it be a show like you can, you
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can stand in the face of what you're talking about, Dan, like
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the the pressure to keep the Sabbath and things like that.
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No, you, you can make a show show of it.
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You can stand. With well, this is not an exact
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answer to Dan's question, but you know in Hebrews, when we
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went through Hebrews, he was talking about that all these
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things, the temple on earth was just a shadow of the real one in
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heaven. Think about verse 17, these
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things, the holy days, the meat, the drink, the not eating the
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meat, not eating the drink, the new moon, the Sabbath days,
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they're the shadow, but the real body is of Christ.
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It's like if I, you know, we've all been standing somewhere or,
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and you can see with the sun at your back, you can see your
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shadow cast out. If you're standing at the corner
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of a building, somebody may see your shadow.
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They not seeing the body, they see in your shadow laying on the
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ground. They're saying there's a guy
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standing around that corner. But to really see the real body,
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In other words, it's two different things.
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You're seeing the shadow there, but the real body, the
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fulfillment, the actuality, the thing that is real is the body,
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and that's all of Christ. In other words, he's saying
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don't let anybody try to get you to go back to the shadow.
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You're in the real thing, right? You know, I mean, that's what
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he's saying. The, the, these things are
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shadows of things to come. Like in the example, if
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somebody, if you see the shadow coming around the corner, you're
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seeing the shadow first. But when the body, the person
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comes around the corner, you can look in the shadow no more.
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You're looking at the real thing.
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And that's what he's saying. These all are just the shadow of
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what was coming, but the real body is of Christ.
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And the law was trying to constantly constrain or condemn
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the body of flesh. And so again, it's kind of akin
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to trying to become uncircumcised or, you know, to
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become circumcised uncircumcised after having been circumcised.
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It's like you're trying to put the flesh back on and you're
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going to touch, not taste, not handle a lot and try to impress
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God in some way by wrapping flesh in it again.
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When we are complete and the the new man has been has been
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delivered right, the the body is of Christ for sure.
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Well, I think I would like to encourage people to read your
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Bible and study your Bible, right?
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Because I think some of the things, the reasons that people
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misunderstand these kinds of things were, hey, we read in the
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Old Testament, right, the the Sabbath and keep the Sabbath
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holy. And they read that and they're
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like, oh man, we need to keep. I've done that myself, right?
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As a young believer, I have done that, but we need to understand
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the Scripture as a whole and understand our position in
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Christ, right? And the only way that you're
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going to fully understand that is to read the scriptures and
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study the scriptures and study the scriptures and study the
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scriptures and not anything else.
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Just learn how to study the Word and stick to the word of God and
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and ask God, ask the Spirit to reveal the truth to you and that
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I think that's where a lot of people go wrong and that's where
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I have straight off and in my life for sure.
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Read it and believe it. Believe what it says.
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Yeah, I had to think of this verse in Galatians 4 where it
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says, but now after that you have known God, or rather are
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known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly
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elements whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage.
1:00:19
I mean that's kind of sums it up.
1:00:21
Like why would you do that? Why would you go back after you
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have known your wife for 10 years to the shadow and be like
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in love with No, that's stupid. You didn't do that.
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Never ever. It's good.
1:00:34
We had a preacher here on Sunday.
1:00:36
I really it was, it was good. He was talking about the
1:00:39
impossibilities, the thing Jesus turned in water to wine and all
1:00:42
that good stuff. And he was saying that he often
1:00:46
gets accused of, you know, easy believe is a preaching, a
1:00:49
message that's just easy to believe.
1:00:51
And he says, I turn around to those people now always say,
1:00:53
well, what's your problem then? Why don't you believe that if
1:00:55
it's so easy to believe? So that's kind of what this
1:01:01
sounds like. You know, it's like, OK, yeah,
1:01:03
this sounds like a really you can live however you want kind
1:01:06
of a thing, but that is actually not how it works.
1:01:09
I mean, how could you go against something that you love?
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But anyway, so I think we ran a couple minutes long here, but
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all good. Appreciate you guys being on
1:01:20
here. Yeah, I did mention those
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mushrooms at the whole bag full of them.
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We weren't talking about shrooms.
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You don't need any of that. Don't need any of that.
1:01:29
This message is good enough to get you fired up.
1:01:31
You don't need any help. All right, so anyway, thanks for
1:01:34
your time. Appreciate everything,
1:01:36
listeners. If you want to go back and hear
1:01:38
the earlier stuff, if you haven't, check it out my
1:01:41
website, Simply Christ Ministries.
1:01:44
All right, have a good week. God bless you guys and we'll see
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you same place, same time next week.
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Thank you.